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A group of people were driving me crazy at the grocery store today. Apparently they were long lost friends who couldn't step aside and have their reunion because they completely blocked a section of the produce department by lining up their carts in the aisle and chatting spread apart. I maneuvered around only to come across them 10 minutes later blocking access to the last two aisles of the store doing the same thing! When I asked politely one managed to sidestep one step so I could squeeze through, but seriously?!?!?! I didn't know three people could take up so much space.

At this point, someone on the gym staff overheard and asked her to take the baby and leave. He reminded her there is a "no one under 16" policy. How she managed to sneak the baby past the front desk, I have no idea. Anyway, she stormed out. I feel sort of bad because she obviously felt like she was being ganged up on. But her attitude didn't help.

You shouldn't feel bad. People who are so entitled and SS that they think the rules don't apply to them DESERVE to be "ganged up on!"

There were a bunch of SSs at this campsite before we showed up. We stayed at a very out of the way free place with 14 sites. Every site was littered with trash. Every campfire ring had plastic garbage in it. A few had diapers. A few had broken chairs, coolers, and an exercise bicycle! One was filled with cigarette butts and pistachio shells. So gross.

We were the only ones there for 24 hours and we spent a bit of time cleaning up a few sites.

There were a bunch of SSs at this campsite before we showed up. We stayed at a very out of the way free place with 14 sites. Every site was littered with trash. Every campfire ring had plastic garbage in it. A few had diapers. A few had broken chairs, coolers, and an exercise bicycle! One was filled with cigarette butts and pistachio shells. So gross.

We were the only ones there for 24 hours and we spent a bit of time cleaning up a few sites.

Good on you! We need more campers like you!

I've never understood people who go camping and then fill their area with junk and rubbish. Doesn't that go completely against the notion of experiencing nature if you make certain that you're sitting in a big pile of rubbish? Why do they go camping? Is it a silly fashionable thing now? I mean, an exercise bike? Really??

There were a bunch of SSs at this campsite before we showed up. We stayed at a very out of the way free place with 14 sites. Every site was littered with trash. Every campfire ring had plastic garbage in it. A few had diapers. A few had broken chairs, coolers, and an exercise bicycle! One was filled with cigarette butts and pistachio shells. So gross.

We were the only ones there for 24 hours and we spent a bit of time cleaning up a few sites.

I hate that, although I'm sure that the fact that it's free makes people think that they can treat it however they want.

Other question, are there no bears, skunks, cougars, nuisance wildlife where you are? It just boggle my mind that there have not been any instances of animal attacks or disease outbreaks with all of that trash

Honestly I don't know. There were a few vague warning signs about wildlife and the garbage cans were the wildlife proof kind. It was obvious the place hadn't been cleaned up for awhile. All the trash cans were overflowing and there was no toilet paper in any of the outhouses. Thankfully we brought our own. When we left 4 days later, no one official had come by to pick up any trash.

Honestly I don't know. There were a few vague warning signs about wildlife and the garbage cans were the wildlife proof kind. It was obvious the place hadn't been cleaned up for awhile. All the trash cans were overflowing and there was no toilet paper in any of the outhouses. Thankfully we brought our own. When we left 4 days later, no one official had come by to pick up any trash.

Another grocery store SS today. Tomorrow is a holiday here in Canada, and the stores will be closed, so the local Real Canadian Superstore was very busy this afternoon. I spotted a parking spot that was very close to the store, thought "Hot dog!", and aimed my car for it. First, however, the lady parked beside that spot decided to unload her groceries - by parking her cart IN the spot, even though she saw me waiting. Why she didn't put her cart behind her car like everyone else is beyond me. Did I mention that it's very hot today?

A man here left his 8-month-old child in the car for 30+ minutes (with the doors unlocked and the windows rolled down.) It was a combination of very hot and very humid, and very stormy this weekend, so both pretty bad contenders for leaving your kid in the car. The news is saying 30 minutes, but it was 12:30 when someone called the police, and 1:00 when the car owner appeared, so really it could have been an hour or more. When he saw the police waiting for him, he told them that he'd only been a minute...or only meant to be a minute, but had decided to run some additional errands while he was there.

AND. He did the same thing last summer with a baby (they didn't say if it was the same one though.)

/\ Babymama, it could not have been the same baby, if this one is 8 months old. They would have been born in November - so not around in the summer months last year.

I volunteered to help register folks for a road race yesterday, there were three groups of Runners and three start times. The rules when you registered where absolutely NO strollers allowed on the race course before or during the race. Two women brought these absolutely HUMONGOUS jogging strollers that were designed for two or more kids and pitched a fit when told they would not be allowed to race with their kids. They had brought no one to watch their kids while running ( none of the 4 kids between them were over four years of age and the youngest was under 6moths of age) and they tried several times to force their way to the start line to be not only in the first wave of runners, but in the first ROW of runners - there by interfering with everyone behind them. When that did not work, they tried to force their where into the middle of the pack "where none of the officials would see them." Which would have been a danger to all those on the course around them. In the end the officials had to have them removed from the start line by the police, who were there for traffic control, of both runners and cars. They delayed the start time by a half hour for all the groups - all because they did not want to follow the rules that where posted at the time of their sign ups.

We have camped in "civilized" camping sites, with a general store close by, and a pool, and we have been primitive camping, where you hike in your own water.

Most of the time, the land is clear and all have obeyed the rules of "leave no trace."

however, one year my son was getting water at a spigot between campsites, and received several fire ant bites that caused him to have need of steroid treatments and is now the proud carrier of a personal epi pen.

How did the ants come to be there?

Well, despite the signage on the water spigot that says, "Do not rinse out mess kits here" and "keep area free of food" it turns out that someone had been washing food containers out all week there, and ants congregated.

Nothing like driving 30 minutes down a windy road into an unknown town just before the emergency center closes so your son can get swelling and hives treated.

As for babies/kids left in hot cars, I have NO words that can be written here.

There have been cases where people have had their cars broken into to free the trapped child. As well as people who have had their cars stolen with the child inside.

A few years ago a mother was given a telling off for doing so by a well-meaning stranger who rescued her child.

Saw something similar at a rest area, although the car was left running and locked with the A/C going. Baby was sleeping in the car seat, and parents needed the rest room. The problem was that they decided to go at the same time, and Mom forgot to take the spare set of keys with her. A State Trooper was summoned and rapidly had the door open (back in the days when a jimmy worked). He let them have it for leaving the baby alone.

I mean, really, who does that? When our daughter was small and sleeping at a rest area, my husband and I went separately. Don't know what these people were thinking.

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"The Universe puts us in places where we can learn. They are never easy places, but they are right. Wherever we are, it's the right place and the right time. Pain that sometimes comes is part of the process of constantly being born." - Delenn to Sheridan: "Babylon 5 - Distant Star"